Grace and peace to all of you this week—I hope to see you in church!

Becky

Prayer

Our prayer today is thinking of the wide diversity in our world—of God’s good creation, some of which (and whom) is struggling right now.

Let me not look away, O God, from any truth I should see. Even if it is difficult, let me face the reality in which I live. I do not want to live inside a cosseted dream, imagining I am the one who is always right, or believing only what I want to hear. Help me to see the world through other eyes, to listen to voices distant and different, to educate myself to the feelings of those with whom I think I have nothing in common. Break the shell of my indifference.

Draw me out of my prejudices and show me your wide variety. Let me not look away.

Amen.[1]

[1] “Let Me Not Look Away, O God,” The Rt. Rev. Steven Charleston, Choctaw, in “Prayers for Racial Justice,” the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania Antiracism Commission.